Peter Zuroweste is an architect, researcher, educator, Director of ZA (Zuroweste Architecture), Associate Professor of Practice in Architecture at Iowa State University, and former Visiting Faculty at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT). ZA’s work engages energy, matter, and information through the lens of critical practice to produce innovative forms of architecture and the city; it includes theoretical and built projects in the United States and Europe. Most notably, ZA has recently completed the landmark Fushë-Krujë Micropolis, a 24-acre post-disaster masterplan that provides 200,000sf of high-density housing, educational, community, and ecological programs to families displaced by Albania’s November 2019 earthquake. Peter’s professional and academic work has been exhibited by the Boston Society of Architects, Harvard GSD, UTDT, the US Environmental Protection Agency, and The Cooper Union; it has been published by Routledge, Thames and Hudson, Actar, and Lars Müller. In addition to teaching advanced undergraduate studios at UIUC and UTDT, Peter has held teaching positions at Harvard GSD, including Studio Instructor for the Design Discovery Program, Instructor for the GSDigital Workshops sequence, and Teaching Assistant for multiple studios and seminars. Peter has lectured and participated in conferences internationally, developing discourse on design-related topics such as thermodynamic materialism, artificial intelligence’s evolutionary algorithms, machinic assemblages, cartoon urbanism, dark high-rises, the relationship between crisis and Modernity, Gilles Deleuze’s influence on architecture since 1990, and post-disaster design. Peter has served as a guest critic in the United States and South America at Harvard GSD, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Syracuse University, Northeastern University, and the University of Colorado. Prior to forming ZA, Peter worked for offices in Kansas City, New York City, Boston, Rotterdam, Berlin, and Chicago, notably for MVRDV’s urbanism department and at Studio Gang where he was Project Leader for Spelman College’s forthcoming Center for Innovation and the Arts. Peter earned his M.Arch 2 with Distinction from Harvard GSD, where he was awarded the Clifford Wong Prize for his design research on high-rise housing; Peter received his undergraduate education at the University of Kansas, FH Potsdam, and The Cooper Union. He is a licensed architect in the State of Illinois.